Jennifer McCarter
Headquarters, Washington, DC September 15, 1998
(Phone: 202/358-1639)
NOTE TO EDITORS: N98-56
GOING "ALL OUT" UNDER WATER
NASA's Life Sciences Division is sponsoring the Challenge
Mission, a unique outreach event, from Sept. 23-30, 1998, in Key
Largo, FL. The Challenge Mission is an eight-day deployment of
the Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station on the sea floor off Key
Largo. The station is a fully functioning, submersible habitat
that serves as a demonstration analog setting for concepts and
challenges of systems needed for human exploration of space.
Invited individuals and representatives of the Challenge
Project museum and national organization partners will be joined
by Space Life Sciences experts in the space analog station.
The list of official crew members includes former astronaut
Buzz Aldrin, movie producer James Cameron, actress Kate Mulgrew,
and Tom Whittaker, the first disabled person to summit Mt.
Everest. Crew members will address their choices to stay
physically and mentally active at every age and to continually
strive to achieve their personal best, as exemplified by John
Glenn, who will fly on the Space Shuttle (STS-95) in October.
The intergenerational crew, assembled from a broad spectrum
of careers, lifestyles and accomplishments, will deliver live
presentations twice daily during the Challenge Mission using
Internet Webcasting technologies. Crew members will engage in a
series of life sciences activities and dockside discussions,
focusing on human aging, in keeping with the STS-95 mission, the
first of a series of collaborations between NASA Life Sciences and
the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of
Health.
A complete listing of crew members and their biographies,
daily Internet communications schedules, information about STS-95
life sciences investigations and related materials is available
at: http://quest/arc.nasa.gov/space/challenge
For more information about participating in the Challenge
Mission, please contact Jennifer McCarter, Public Affairs
Specialist, NASA Headquarters, (Phone: 202/358-1639), or Bonnie
McClain, Space Life Sciences Education Programs Coordinator,
Colorado State University, Washington, DC, (Phone: 202/488-5123).
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